Newsletter 2022-07-28
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Newsletter from Arts for Good Foundation - July 2022
Welcome to the July 2022 newsletter from Arts for Good Foundation. This month, we have been leading and planning a few art making events with the youths. Through art making, we hope to increase their awareness of the cultural heritage around us and drive them to reflect on the role of media in our daily lives.  We are also delighted to launch our art viewing study groups at museums, which is one of our key art viewing programmes and is intended to motivate youths and younger students to reflect, discuss and explore. More importantly, we encourage them to learn while serving others and to explore art collectively with open and beginners' minds.

Best regards,
Amanda H Sun
Change Maker
Founder & Director
 
Video Art Making - Hong Kong's Disappearing Signages Written in Chinese Calligraphy

Thanks to our collaborating Chinese calligraphy artist Katrina Mo, we had a great time taking five youths on an artistic journey, taking a tram ride during which we filmed a video about Hong Kong's disappearing signages written in Chinese calligraphy.  We are deeply grateful for all the behind-the-scene volunteers who helped make this video art project a success. 

This video will be introduced as part of our upcoming Chinese calligraphy art workshop with twenty student beneficiaries from The Boys' and Girls' Clubs Association of Hong Kong. The workshop will be held on 5th August at The Mills.

Through this video project, tram ride and Chinese calligraphy workshop, we aim to help the youths and younger students: 1) understand the implications of different perspectives experienced  from the upper and lower decks of the tram; 2) appreciate that Chinese calligraphy has real-life relevance and understand the historical contexts and individual expression conveyed by Chinese calligraphy; 3) create a meaningful and multi-sensory experience that enhance their appreciation of Chinese calligraphy and helps them to better understand the perspectives of "black" and "white"; and 4) rethink Hong Kong's disappearing culture through art making in order to strengthen their cultural sensitivity in daily life and enhance their emotional and intellectual connection with  our wider community.  
 
Sound Art Making - Hong Kong's Disappearing Signages

We are delighted that sound artist Alain Chiu provided sound art support for the Hong Kong disappearing signages written in Chinese Calligraphy project. The sounds art will be incorporated into the above-mentioned video and will be debuted as part of the upcoming Chinese calligraphy art making workshop with The Boys' and Girls' Clubs Association of Hong Kong, to be held on 5 August at The Mills.

As part of the project, we collected sounds from an old-style teahouse, a congee and noodle restaurant, fresh markets,  trams, and pawnshops.  The purpose of collecting these sounds is to enhance  real-life relevance of Chinese calligraphy by presenting it to the children in a multi-sensory environment. Ultimately, we hope to guide them to better appreciate the beauty of Chinese calligraphy in their daily lives and to help them become more culturally sensitive about their surroundings.  
 
HKU x Arts For Good Art Viewing Study Groups at Museums

Bravo to our 20 HKU student ambassadors for leading and facilitating a total of 17 study groups with younger primary and secondary students at M+ and HKMOA on the Saturdays in July.

We have been delighted to see the students enjoying the study groups and having a great time together. We are also very grateful for all the enthusiastic culture learners who participated in the self-directed learning groups as part of the programme.

This programme aims to create art viewing co-learning experience led by more mature learners. Students are encouraged to ask questions, which are open-ended and raise opportunities for everyone to reflect, explore, and discuss from different perspectives. Rather than having art experts lecture the participants, we aim to encourage them to learn and to explore while respecting different perspectives in the process of art viewing,

We are thankful for the social workers  from various NGOs who helped us to recruit younger participants for the programme. We are also deeply thankful for a total of 50 corporate skill-based volunteers who continue to provide weekly onsite supports for the delivery of this programme, which will continue until the end of August. We look forward to hosting more study groups at museums.
 
Short Film Making - Media Manipulation

We are delighted to launch a short film making project about media manipulation led by Enya AN, who graduated from Beijing Film Academy, University of the Creative Arts (UK) and recently from City University of Hong Kong (Creative Media). This collaborative film making event will take place at The Mills from 1 to 4 August.

This project will produce a 10-minute short film which will be made by the youth participants and targeted to youth audiences. The story will be about mapping human beings exist in a state of manipulation by social ideology. We aim to invite participants and future audiences to rethink the relationship between media and human beings, particularly in an era that is overflowing with information on social media. We hope to raise more awareness of how the flood of information on media is leading to a gradual loss of independent thinking and free imagination.

We are thankful for the support of several creative talent volunteer recruitment platforms  as well as venue support from The Mills. We have successfully recruited a young team to make the film and we are looking forward to this collaborative art project and how it may contribute to social good in the future.
 
For enquiries, please email us at info@artsforgoodfoundation.com.
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